General Discussion

OK, here goes. I'm trying to make a Portable Apps Search Plugin for Firefox (this could be an excercise in futility, but I seem to do that for a living anyway :D), it seems I need a little more info:

1. John, do I need permission for this? (copyright/tradmark issue probs etc.)

and 2. Does Drupal use a different search syntax or something? I can't seem to figure it out. I'm looking for something like this: input name="qt" user="", where 'qt' would be the search sytax. Anybody have any advice?

Thanks All

Ashes

How about making development apps portable? Things like a C/C++ compiler, Fortran95 compiler, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, a debugger and all that?

I have a local copy of OOo. I want my files to be truly portable to any host computer.

Do I understand correctly that I need a thumbdrive copy of OOo? Save my local files to it? How do I
synch ongoing files? Goodsynch or other software?
Thanks for any help,
Donna in AR

Just curious, when is Portable 7-Zip coming out? I read somewhere here that it is being worked on.

I have been trying for a couple of days to download PStart, but their server has been down. Is this just a glitch or is it no longer available. Does anyone know of an alternative download site?

Thanks,

Chad

Hi Portable Appsters

We have just released a new free Portable App called Yadabyte Dictionary. Its ideal for when you need a fast and comprehensive dictionary but dont have access to a web based service.

Features:

• Comprehensive: More definitions and synonyms than any other available dictionary. These all stem from an awesome 145,000 + definitions.
• Super Useful: Dictionary definitions, thesaurus and usage all in one application.
• Incredibly small file size: thanks to our bespoke text compression techniques. With Yadabyte Dictionary we have compressed nearly 24 megabytes of information into a mere 5 megabytes. So there is no excuse not to have it on any thumbdrive.

I want to make pyscripter(http://mmm-experts.com/Products.aspx?ProductId=4) portable with python(http://www.python.org)
but I did not find a tut on making a app which save config in c:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\ portable. Is there anybody kind enough to tell me how to by a *real* example?
thank you.

I'm on a Mac at the moment, so I can't test this myself, but it just occurred to me...

As far as I know, every .exe launched in WinXP (and later) will result in a corresponding entry in the WINDOWS\Prefetch folder. This file will certainly indicate the date & time the .exe was active, and presumably has some encoded information regarding the .exe itself - its location on disk, and which disk, is probably stored but may not be readily legible to the human eye.

My point is this: Many people here go to great lengths to point out that some apps (notably TrueCrypt) are not "Truly portable", because they leave some traces. Also people seem keen to have security-related apps, sometimes including unerase tools, secure deletion tools and apps to clean up traces of their activity on the host PC.

I was bored at school, so I made my own portable game counter-strike 1.6. Its like 215mbs works on lan only.

I've had a Lexar 128 MB Jump Drive Sport for about two years now, but I never got much use out of it until I found this site. Now I'm finding that 128 MB just ins't enough for my apps and all my files.

While browsing eBay, I noticed that there are several "no name" brands of thumb drives being sold for next to nothing. Has anyone ever used a no-name brand? Are they all the same, or is it worth paying more for a brand name?